Denial is really death. People think that when you're connected with other people it's more painful. The opposite is true. When you're… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“I'm not ashamed of heroic ambitions. If man and woman can only dance upon this earth for a few countable turns of… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
You knew everything you'd ever know in your life time, before you took your first breathe and after that you started marching… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Therefore 'Christ hath tasted death for every man:' not only for all kinds of men, as some vainly talk, but for every… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
“He didn't know why the Shadows wanted the brother and sister, but if he allowed himself to dwell on it too long… — J Meyers Copy Share Image
“The Comtesse's fellow prisoners in this antechamber to death were characteristic of the ill-assorted gatherings thrown together in Revolutionary prisons: duchesses and… — Stanley Loomis Copy Share Image
The states of birth, suffering, love, and death, are extreme states: extreme, universal, and inescapable. We all know this, but we would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeve of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Iniquity and affront An affront is an injustice done to someone and, as a consequence, the person remains in grief and dishonor.… — Ana Mendez Ferrell Copy Share Image
“ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάντατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες (Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life.)” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
... these three witnesses are one, as John said: 'The water, the blood, and the Spirit' (I Jn. 5:8). One in the… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
“If I danced with my feet As I did in my dreaming, As graceful and gleaming As death in disguise -- Oh,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
I've been trying not to love you, I've been putting up a fight. I've been barely holding on, and letting go with… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Owen Meany had believed that his death was necessary if others were to be saved from a stupidity and hatred that was… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Memory My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour—’T… — Paul Negri Copy Share Image
“Life was a bloody battlefield until I conquered the enemy and won the war. Now, life is a journey, and I am… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
“A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Courage doesn't always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn't always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The seeds of life - fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies' ills or… — Virgil Copy Share Image
“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Decebel pulled Jen close in a show of gentleness that she was beginning to notice he only displayed to her. “You don’t… — Quinn Loftis Copy Share Image
In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to… — Horace Fletcher Copy Share Image
“But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
In expectation of his demise, a successful businessman may sell out to his competitors to prepare his estate with readily marketable securities,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“Be strong! … You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“… Damned is the soul that dies while the evil it committed lives on. And the most damned of all are those… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Nothing is free. Everything has to be paid for. For every profit in one thing, payment in some other thing. For every… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“And so we come to the last crisis, that of integrity versus disgust and despair. Throughout the life-cycle the pieces have been… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
“The woman dying of cancer in The Barracks facing the raw fear of everything in her life disintegrating. The abused adolescent boy… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“That’s when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
